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Academic aesthetics

Dark Academia

Long Black coats, thunder but no lightning, red wine, blood, forests in winter, a single guttering candle, latin, bones, all of history in your hands, Tchaikovsky, piles of old books, the hour before sunrise, complicated cravats, Hozier, true crime, Donna Tartt, secret diaries.

Light Academia

Sunshine in shallow water, white cotton, lacy dresses, champagne, the plays of Oscar Wilde, summer rain, wind rustling the pages of a book, jacket over on shoulder, Maurice, frost covering new flowers, Florence + the machine, roses, bare feet, girls school, old books about species of plant or butterflies, biological Diagrams, flowers in your hair, perfect notes.

Chaotic Academia

Two top buttons undone, scribbled notes in pencil or biro, kill your darlings, untied laces, so much coffee, all nighters, crying in the library, Mozart, writing film scripts for fun, rain Storms, moorland, swimming in the dark, movie soundtracks while studying, procrastination, muddy boots, unsent letters.

Grey Academia

Jane eyre, sunrise, cold hands, perfect handwriting, beat gen, Edgar Alan Poe, crows, small animal bones, writing essays until 2am, Vivaldi, February or November, zodiacs, loving history and art, Leonardo davinci, Tamino.

Romantic Academia

Billowing pirate sleeves, Lord Byron, theatre, violets, achilles, reading poetry aloud, bloody cheekbones, love letters, doodling in class, doc Martins, long ball dresses, gothic churches, dead poets society, sword fights back stage, wind and mist and violent Storms, tea, long journal entries, wide brimmed hats, museums.

Spring Academia

Cotton shirts with large jumpers, celendines, maypole dancing, reading short stories, old traditions, Jane Austen, new term, beautiful notes, pastel colours, period dramas, magpies, 2005 pride and prejudice soundtrack, new leaves, cold feet, dancing.

Summer Academia

Flower crowns, studying late while the sun is still up, full moons, parties outside, sun dresses, warm rainstorms, exam season, bare feet, ancient Greece, herb tea, singing to the radio, lying in the grass, bird song, biology textbooks, the Lord of the rings, studying outside, mystery of love by sufjan Stevens.

Autumn Academia

Foxes, dead leaves, large coats and scarves, old stone walls, steaming black tea, mist, travel journals, forgetting to study until the last minute, frankenstein, old songs, nostalgia, carrying a book everywhere, rebel rebel, the picture of dorian gray, soup, studying in the morning as the sun rises.

Winter Academia

Long walks, misty breath, so much reading, shunning capitalist society, sad music, learning about witch hunts, philosophy, wuthering heights, mystery books, Dracula, black and white photos, transcribing music, old statues, silence.

Feral Academia

Pin stripe jacket with jeans, Dionysus, "norse" makeup, cold sweet tea, running through the forest, mythology, I got an unconditional so I don't need to try hard, scraping the grades, shouty music, helenic polytheism, obsessive interests, reading a 500 page book in one sitting, love learning, hate the education system, vive le revolution.

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“You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don’t get to in real life. It can be addicting.” - Sebastian Stan

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i just came across your blog from your amazing art taste. how did you come to get into such classical striking styles? from your love of donna tartt i assume it carried through to other art forms. what are some of your favourite artists or themes (could be visual, musical, literary etc)?

first of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart because this ask really made my day, you’re a sweetheart.

actually, i think if i have to track down a literary origin point for my art taste (even if it’s not entirely true it all originated in that specific way, it’s truer to state i was born with it, i would roam around the louvre or versailles at six and already feel so in awe and in my element, or i would arrive in rome at nine and feel home), but the real turning point of my artistic taste was the art for art’s sake movement, walter pater and oscar wilde. only ten years later i discovered donna tartt, and i had already graduated from my classics high school and in general studied the classics for ten years - yes, donna tartt added a great deal of beauty in my life, but i was already completely part of that world, so to speak.

it’s so difficult to list all the artists, and styles, and in general all the beauty that daily inspires my life, the right answer would be, “everything that strikes me within and that i find beautiful”, and that can be literally anything, but i can try, for art’s sake :)

art genres and movements:

mythology, classicism, neoclassicism, medioeval art, romanticism, gothic, surrealism, baroque, high renaissance art, impressionism, pop-art, street art, urban art, and photorealism.

aesthetics:

dark magic, classicism, dark and soft mythology, dark academia, pretentiousness and dandyism

authors:

sophocles, euripides, sappho, homer, ovid, oprheus, plato, saint john, catullus, seneca, lucanus, héloïse, petrarch, dante, boccaccio, machiavelli, kyd, marlowe, shakespeare, keats, hölderlin, goethe, byron, mary shelley, shelley, the bronte sisters, walter pater, oscar wilde, baudelaire, de saint-exupéry, hugo, dumas, woolf, joyce, d’annunzio, ungaretti, montale, quasimodo, lewis, talkien, fizgerald, pessoa, saramago, kundera, nietzsche, tartt, pullman, rowling, carey, weis, hickman, bulgakov, nabokov, rushdie, salinger, colli, baricco, pirandello, calasso, kerenyi, proust, my dead poets and, obviously, myself.

books:

the greek myths, the poetic edda, the orphic hymns, the bacchae, iphigenia in aulis, the iliad, the metamorphosis, the letters of abelard and héloïse, the divine comedy, the prince, the spanish tragedy, tamerlaine the great, marlowe’s doctror fausts and goethe’s doctor faustus, macbeth, romeo and juliet, the tempest, a midsummer night’s dream, julius caesar, the modern prometeous, jane eyre, wuthering heights, walter pater’s the reinassaince, the picture of dorian gray, the profundis, the importance of being earnest, the flowers of evil, the little prince, la esmeralda, the count of montecristo, the three musketeers, mr dallaway, the waves, orlando, paradise lost, the dubliners, the pleasure, the chronicles of narnia, the lord of the rings, the silmarillion, the great gatsby, the book of disquiet, blindness, the unbearable lightness of being, the greek tragedy, thus spoke zarathustra, his dark materials, harry potter, the kushiel’s legacy, the dragonlance saga, the secret history, the goldfinch, the little friend, the name of the rose, lolita, the master and margarita, the satanic verses, the greek sapience, oceansea, silk, remembrance of things past, the wedding of cadmus and armonia, the catcher in the rye, the elegance of the hedgehog, dracula, the phantom of the opera, elective affinities, the sorrows of young werther, venus in furs.

painters, sculptors and artists:

caravaggio, botticelli, da vinci, michelangelo, canova, dalì, klimt (who is my absolute favorite), fontana, de chirico, marina abramovich, waterhouse, dicksee.

directors:

lars von trier, baz luhrmann, wes anderson, michael gondry, the wachowski sisters, sorrentino.

movies:

only lovers left alive, her, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, mood indigo, nymphomaniac, dogville, manderlay, melancholia, antichrist, breaking the waves, moulin rouge!, the great gatsby, birdman, beginners, as good as it gets, trainspotting, fight club, amelie, breakfast at tyffany’s, submarine, seeking a friend for the end of the world, frank, american beauty, dead poets society, kill your darlings, the book thief, the importance of being earnest, joan of arc, elizabeth: the golden age, the name of the rose, the best offer, the great beauty, the trials of oscar wilde, the hours, the phantom of the opera, the mask of zorro, thelma, gone with the wind, troy, la haine, orlando, lord of the rings, dragonheart, ladyhawke, interview with the vampire, bram stocker’s dracula, last tango in paris, dangerous liasons, this beautiful fantastic, the dreamers, band a part.

tv series:

sherlock, the young pope, penny dreadful, sense8, kidding, westworld, peaky blinders, the man in the high castle, genius, the tudors, versailles, vikings, the 100, the handmaid’s tale, poldark, outlander, game of thrones, da vinci’s demons, dracula, the originals, the count of montecristo.

musicals:

the phantom of the opera, love never dies, notredame de paris, the lion king, les miserables, anastasia, le moulin rouge,

music:

leonard cohen, medieval organ music, tom waits, lana del rey, helsey, lou reed, bright eyes, all disney honestly, chopin, laura marling, natalie merchant, bjork, roberto vecchioni, the phantom of the opera: 25th anniversary soundtrack, love never dies: london soundtrack, fabrizio de andrè, nick cave, placebo, kamelot, adele, 30 seconds to mars, elton john, ramazzotti, bocelli, evanescence, zucchero, sinatra, garbage, hans zimmer, jeff buckley, david bowie, mina, pink floyd, mumford & sons, oasis, nostalghia, queen, notre-dame the paris italian soundtrack, sia, the cure, the phantom of the opera italian sound track, lucifer’s sound track, U2, wagner.

those are just a few off the top of my head, but i’m sure i forgot thousands. hope you’ll enjoy them tho, and being inspired by them as i am!

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Can you suggest a DA songs?

Hubris - Sevdaliza, Poems - Hippocampus, Skin - Marika Hackman, Danse Macabre, Sea Swallow Me - Cocteau Twins, VG’s Blues - KYD soundtrack, Rain in Venice - Geoffrey Burgeon, Blood Bitch - Cocteau Twins, Love Club - Lorde, Human - Sevadliza.I’d like to point out that while I think these are pretty dark academia, their lyrics rarely are. Most of them I think fit the audial aesthetic. Sevdaliza I would say is dark academia aesthetic in just about every song. if i were to give you what generally goes as da, I’d say : heavy classical music, fast jazz, Vampire Weekend, Meet Me In the Hallway - Harry Styles, Poems - Hippocampus, Writer in the Dark - Lorde, Greek God - Conan Gray, etc.

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The Ethereality Aesthetic

So I see that there's not really a set aethetic for ethereal/etherealcore/ethereality, which is upsetting because it's so beautiful to me, so I thought I should go ahead and make it myself

So what's the jist of it, you ask?

Neutral colors

In love with every season but spring and autumn are everything

Flowy / classy attire

Lace, chiffon, fur

Simplicity with faint traces of glamor

Burning candles

Steaming tea/coffee in beautiful teacups or mugs

Roses

Handwritten letters

Faded photography

Reading/writing in a beautiful setting like a garden, an aesthetic coffee shop, the porch on a rainy day

Watching the sunrise (whereas the norm is to watch the sunset)

Any form of art (especially writing and painting)

Pondering on the deeper matters of life

Pleasant breezes

Nature

Warm smiles and voices that sound like home

Calm music

Gentle and eloquent words

All things heart and soul

Pleasant demeanor

Sheer curtains blowing in the wind

Stone architecture

Big libraries

Elegant old world charm

I'll add more as they come to me!

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Bartender: thanks for stopping that bar fight, spiderman. Can I get you a drink? It’s on the house

Peter: thank you, but I can’t

Bartender: why not

Peter:

Bartender:

Peter, trying not to give his age away: I’m pregnant

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the hanahaki disease is so fascinating to me because there is no documented origin, there is no myth or legend or anything of that sort from which it was derived, there’s no history behind it. one day some fanfic author said “this is a good concept” and it caught on like wildfire and now it’s been integrated into kpop fanfic culture as a pretty prevalent trope, and it’s spreading to other fandoms as well. how fucking cool is that. how cool is it that fanfic authors are creating beauty on such a high magnitude. it blows me the fuck away.

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hoW IS SHE SOO CUTE OH MY GOD 💞💚💛💔💓💖🧡💙💜💗💓💞💕💘❣️💝

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when you’re hopelessly in love, but you’re pretending that you’re too cool for this shit.

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Me: You know, I respect your opinion. I know we’re all different and so are our minds, so it’s obvious that everyone as a different vision of- WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THEY’RE JUST FRIENDS

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yall ever heard about the wave

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- Adam after Shiro and Keith come back to earth and neither sent him a family message -

Adam, coming to meet them on the lion hanger: Where. Have. You. Been?!

Adam, now smiling: Paladins - how wonderful to see you.

Adam, turning back to Shiro and Keith: Beds empty! No note! Motorcycle gone! You could have died!

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me: *sobbing*

you: what’s wrong

me: *looks up at you, tears are streaming down my face*

me: adashi isn’t canon

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klancers: have been making long posts explaining exactly what irked them this season, talking about how allurance could’ve worked if it had been written better, rightfully angry over lance’s pathetic epilogue, rightfully angry over the fact that lance was never properly developed, able to acknowledge moments when they actually enjoyed the show, wishing allura was alive, analyzing the moral message we/children are supposed to derive from this show, etc.

everyone else in the fandom: klancers stop whining about your ship not being canon!!! it was never going to happen anyways!!!!

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- in which the end credits of Voltron actually show us it’s just been Shiro and Lance telling kids a story and the plot holes is cause each tell it slightly differently when it’s their turn -

Adam and Allura: STOP TELLING EVERYONE WE’RE DEAD

Shiro and Lance, whipping a fake tear and trying not to laugh: sometimes we still hear their voices

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tumblr B.C. (before censorship)

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PSA

Adam and Curtis are both taller than Shiro. That is all.